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The Dear White People Roundtable
After what seems like a year’s worth of trailers, teasers, and dozens of free screenings for Bougie Blacks and guilt-ridden Whites, Dear White People was finally released. Some are calling it genius and whichever other superlative they can think of. Others have been somewhat underwhelmed. Last week, we started an email thread for the VSB…
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Why This Picture Of Joe Biden Counting Cash And Eating Ice Cream Is The Blackest Thing We've Ever Seen Today
1. Although Bill Clinton has been a honorary Black American so long that he’s basically honorary Black emeritus, Joe Biden is the one who truly deserves that honor. Because he’s been an outspoken advocate for civil rights. And because along from Huck from Scandal, he’s the only other White man to willingly serve under a…
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Defending Ray Rice Is Just The Same As Defending George Zimmerman
***Damon’s latest for Ebony on the similarities between Ray Rice defenders and the people defending George Zimmerman and Darren Wilson*** For (many) Black people, this is the most maddening and exasperating part of racism. Not the actual racism. But the denial that the actual racism exists. Knowing this, and how frustrated so many of us are by…
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Man Arrested For…Waiting While Black? Being Polite While Black? Being Black While Black?
Just watch this fucking shit.
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That Time We Were Reminded That "Black American" Is An Oxymoron
I know we did something on Mike Brown already earlier this week, but with the way this situation in Ferguson has ballooned, I just can’t think/write about anything else. Even if I did, it wouldn’t feel appropriate. I’m also too stunned/shocked to write something coherent. And I’m assuming many of you feel the same way.…
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How Safe Do You Feel In America?
America is not a safe place for the Black American. It’s an obvious but sad truth, one every Mike Brown (and every Eric Garner, and every John Crawford, and every Oscar Grant, and…), every news story about weekend violence in whichever city you’re from, and every memory of how your life is impacted by a…
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There's Nothing Wrong With Being A Bandwagon Fan
(Damon’s latest at EBONY explains why he’s a fan of NBA players first, not NBA teams.) Growing up, my three favorite basketball teams were the Lakers, Bulls, and Warriors. I had a poster of Run TMC, a Bulls Starter jacket, and dozens of Laker t-shirts, sweats, and shorts. Since the Pittsburgh papers didn’t print NBA…
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VSB Roundtable: How Fake Deep Was Your Fake Deep?
The majority of the people reading this were either in high school or college when Love Jones/Def Poetry Jam fever hit the Bougie Black nation, turning everyone into some awkward combination of Saul Williams and Miss Cleo. Christina Eichelberger posed a great question to the rest of the VSB contributors: How fake deep was your…
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Why I'm Glad The Chappelle Show Ended
(Damon’s latest at EBONY wonders if it’s a good thing that the iconic comedy show ended when it did.) The news of the upcoming Lifetime Aaliyah biopic — and the casting of Zendaya Coleman — stirred another round of conversation about the deceased starlet, much of it focused on her status (the Haughton family apparently…
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